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  • Idleness

    A Philosophical Essay

    by Brian O'Connor ...
    The first book to challenge modern philosophy's case against idleness, revealing why the idle state is one of true freedomFor millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labor and self-improvement can seem like a luxury or a moral failure. Far from questioning this conventional wisdom, modern ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Bud to Blow

    by Brian Connor ...
    While innocent and naïve to peer pressure, Cory Carter is more self-aware than most going off to college. That is, until pledging a fraternity at Indiana University changes his outlook on life. Hazing leads to blood. Blood leads to regret. Regret leads to a transformation, making Cory into the biggest drug dealer on campus. For the first time in his life, he loses self-control. The power of that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • From Bud to Blow

    by Brian Connor ...
    While innocent and naïve to peer pressure, Cory Carter is more self-aware than most going off to college. That is, until pledging a fraternity at Indiana University changes his outlook on life. Hazing leads to blood. Blood leads to regret. Regret leads to a transformation, making Cory into the biggest drug dealer on campus. For the first time in his life, he loses self-control. The power of that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Add A Zero

    From €5,000 to €50,000 in an Irish Racing Season

    by Brian O'connor ...
    It's March in Ireland - the flat season is about the start and Irish Times racing correspondent, Brian O'Connor has decided to boldly go where no racing correspondent has gone before. He puts his money where is mouth is and attempts to turn Euro 5,000 into Euro 50,000. But can he actually do it ...In Add A Zero, we join him on his quest as we're taken through the highs and the lows of the world of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Kings of the Saddle

    Ireland's Greatest Jockeys

    by Brian O'Connor ...
    The recent retirement of Mick Kinane, doyen of flat racing jockeys whose swansong was his 2009 Classic victories on the great Sea the Stars, reminded us once again how many of the greatest jockeys in racing, over jumps as well as on the flat, hail from Ireland. Brian O’Connor is the experienced racing correspondent of the Irish Times, and his survey of the twelve finest jockeys currently riding in ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • ADORNO

    by Brian O'Connor ...
    Series series The Routledge Philosophers
    Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists of the post-war period. Crucial to the development of Critical Theory, his highly original and distinctive but often difficult writings not only advance questions of fundamental philosophical significance, but provide deep-reaching analyses of literature, art, music sociology and political theory.In this ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • OMNI – Teddy Quest

    by Brian G. O'Connor ...
    Series Book 1 - OMNI Series
    The future of space belongs to all of us.What might it be like for ordinary families to live in space?For the Quinn family, life aboard the OMNI space station is both exciting and unfamiliar. Far from Earth, each day brings new challenges as they adapt to life inside humanity’s most ambitious orbital home.But when young Portia loses her beloved teddy bear somewhere within the station’s vast ... Read more

    $6.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death by Fire and Ice

    The Steamboat Lexington Calamity

    by Brian E. O'Connor ...
    Death by Fire and Ice tells the little-known story of the sinking of the steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound in January 1840. Built in 1835 by Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Lexington left Manhattan bound for Stonington, Connecticut, at four o'clock in the afternoon on a bitterly cold day carrying an estimated one hundred forty-seven passengers and crew and a cargo of, among other things, baled ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Watergate

    But Were Afraid to Ask

    by Brian J. O'Connor, Lori Perkins ...
    The story of Watergate is usually told through the prism of the straight, white male journalists and politicians who were at the center of the scandal—but Watergate happened to all of us – wives, mothers, children, black, white, queer, immigrants. Those voices and perceptions are rarely heard today.Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Watergate was envisioned as a book that looks at the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The $1,000 Challenge

    How One Family Slashed Its Budget Without Moving Under a Bridge or Living on Government Cheese

    by Brian J. O'Connor ...
    Are You Brave Enough for the $1,000 Challenge?Middle-class incomes are stretched more than ever. Feeling the strain himself, personal finance columnist Brian O’Connor decided to put his own family’s spending to the test. He began a ten-week experiment to see if his family could cut its monthly living expenses by $1,000—without sacrificing anything truly important. From groceries and transportation ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Dialectic of Digital Culture

    by David Arditi, Jennifer Miller, Brian Connor, Lisa Daily, Long Doan, Robert Gehl, Nancy Hanrahan, Ariella Horwitz, Douglas Kellner0, Timothy Morris1, Amy Speier2, Timothy Luke3, Michael Palm4 ...
    This edited collection analyzes the role of digital technology in contemporary society dialectically. While many authors, journalists, and commentators have argued that the internet and digital technologies will bring us democracy, equality, and freedom, digital culture often results in loss of privacy, misinformation, and exploitation. This collection challenges celebratory readings of digital ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Asthma: Epidemiology, Anti-Inflammatory Therapy and Future Trends

    Edited by Mark A. Giembycz, Brian J. O'Connor ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Invasive versus Non-Invasive Clinical Measurements in Medicine Clinical measurement has become an essential complement to traditional physical diagnosis. An ideal clinical measurement should be quantitative, have a high level of reliability and accuracy, be safe, acceptable to the patient, easy to perform and non-invasive. The latter demands that the technique should not break the skin or the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD